C17 Sword Cave

CHAPTER XVI The Sword Cave

Sthenia of Mountain Meridian and One Sthenia of Seven Meridians

Yue Fei was worried for his master's safety. He held the fire piston in one hand and the iron spear in the other.

Both sides of the passage looked old. The tunnel slanted down to the east. After Yue Fei ran for more than three hundred meters, two thick stone doors suddenly appeared in front of him. One of the stone doors had cracks that were about a foot wide.

On the ground, the footprints made from blood and shoes led to the stone door.

Yue Fei slowed his footsteps, carefully and cautiously walked to the stone door, holding onto the iron spear in one hand, he calmed his mind, then slowly extended his head inside.

Behind the stone door was a large cavern with a radius of several hundred feet.

A hole in the ground at the side of the cave continued to extend eastward.

Inside the cavern, on the four walls of the cavern, tens of caves were dug out, each as tall as a person.

Within each of these caves, there was a dead body.

His master Zhou Tong was currently standing in front of a cave at the north side of the cave. Holding a fire piston in his left hand, he stared at a corpse inside the cave.

Seeing that his master was safe and sound, Yue Fei finally calmed down.

Yue Fei ran to the back of his master and called him master. However, Zhou Tong still had his back facing Yue Fei, and was looking at the dead body. After a few breaths of time, Zhou Tong finally called out to Yue Fei: "Fei'er, look at this corpse —"

Yue Fei's heart stirred: "Master told me to look at this corpse, it's naturally a bit strange on this corpse." He then stood beside his Master, raising his head to take a look, only to see the corpse sitting cross-legged. It was like a monk meditating, leaning against the cave wall. The corpse was dressed in white. However, a thick layer of dust had covered the white robe for a long time.

There was less dust on the face of the dead man. He seemed to be an old man in his fifties.

From the looks of it, the white-robed old man had never experienced any pain before he died.

Yue Fei's eyes flashed, and said slowly: "Master, this white clothed old man seemed to have walked here himself, and then passed away in this cave?"

Zhou Tong nodded, and said: "Yes." Pausing for a moment, Zhou Tong asked: "Did you manage to figure out the background of this man?"

Yue Fei looked at the corpse of the white clad old man in the cave again and shook his head. Just as he was about to tell his master that he was unsure, Yue Fei suddenly saw a golden light flash on the white clothed elderly man's sleeves.

Yue Fei's heart moved, and immediately after, he kept the iron spear into his backpack. He held the fire piston in one hand, and took a few steps forward, this time closer. Yue Fei could see even more clearly, that the white clothed elderly man's corpse's sleeves had a golden thread embroidered on it.

Gold Line...

Yue Fei's eyes lit up, and the three words that escaped his mouth was "Scripture Pavilion — —"

Zhou Tong's eyes revealed a look of approval, and said in a low voice: "Not bad, this person is precisely from the Scripture Pavilion — —"

Yue Fei's heart began to rumble even more intensely. He could not help but ask his master another question, "Master, if this person was someone from the Scripture Pavilion, then wouldn't that mean that the Reincarnation Tripod had already been discovered by them?"

Zhou Tong nodded again, and then looked around, as if he was afraid that what he had said would be heard by other people, and then he said in a low voice: "Fei'er, that Reincarnation Tripod is the life cauldron of the Scripture Pavilion, and all the corpses in the cave are left behind by the people from Scripture Pavilion —" After that, Zhou Tong pointed at the walls of the cave and continued: "Look, these corpses, I counted around, there were a total of seventy-eight of them, and all of them were people from the Scripture Pavilion.

Without waiting for Yue Fei's reply, Zhou Tong muttered to himself: "This means that these people come from different times — —"

Yue Fei's heart trembled. "Master, you're saying that the people from the Scripture Pavilion have long ago discovered this place, and then stayed here?"

Zhou Tong shook his head: "It's not that we found this place, but it's because the Scripture Pavilion people discovered this Reincarnation Tripod a long time ago, and then just now, at the riverbank, this cave was dug out. This hole should be used to observe the Reincarnation Tripod —"

Zhou Tong squinted his eyes, looking at the corpse in front of him, his voice carried a hint of excitement: "Many years ago, I heard that there was a Sword Cave in the Scripture Pavilion, and there was an extremely huge secret contained inside. Looking at it now, this is this Sword Cave."

Zhou Tong turned his head to the side, and looked at Yue Fei, his face filled with joy: "Fei'er, did you know? During these three days, I and Energetic Capture that blood slave, for two days straight, didn't get anything. That blood slave was very cunning, so I planned to set up a formation to capture that blood slave. "After laying the Five Mountain Formation, I dug a vertical shaft in the eye of the formation, and then went down the vertical shaft. Originally, I wanted to place the blood slave inside the vertical shaft and trap him inside the vertical shaft with the Five Mountain Formation, but when I was digging the vertical shaft, I accidentally opened the tunnel. Then, under my curiosity, I found this cave and — Hehe, I was actually discovered by me —"

Yue Fei was also very excited. Yue Fei knew that each of the sects in the five great sects of the Mountain and Sea Realm were anxious to get their hands on the nine cauldrons of the Mountain and Sea Realm, but the nine cauldrons had long since been lost in the endless river of time. Just like that, Character in the Classic of Mountains and Rivers began searching for the nine cauldrons of the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Their sect's Mount Sect, in order to find the Mountain Sea Nine Cauldrons, had also experienced thousands of years of hard work, but they could not get it. They did not expect that the Scripture Pavilion's owner was so powerful, to actually have already found the most mysterious of the nine cauldrons a thousand years ago, and even constructed such a large sword cave at the side of the Reincarnation Tripod.

Yue Fei thought, this person in Scripture Pavilion was not only powerful, it was also terrifying —

Just as Yue Fei was letting out a sigh in his heart, he heard a light sound coming from behind him. Several tens of meters away.

That sound seemed to be the sound of footsteps landing on the ground.

There was a swish.

Although his voice was soft, Yue Fei and Zhou Tong had been practicing martial arts since childhood, and his hearing was extremely sensitive.

Zhou Tong and Yue Fei looked at each other, having the same thought in their hearts: "Someone is coming —"

This person was definitely not a blood slave, and definitely not Yang Dalee.

Half corpse, half ghost. Yang Dalee was a disciple of the Mount Sect, so his profound arts and skills were all practiced in the art of moving the mountains and moving the sea. When his strength reached a certain point, his footsteps would naturally be firm as he walked, and he would be able to make a sound on the ground. Even Zhou Tong, who had trained the Mountain Shifting Sea technique to an extremely high level, dared not to say that he was stepping on the snow without a trace, and fell silently to the ground — —

Yue Fei and his disciple had the same thought: Who are you?